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ISLAMABAD: Only 5,000 big companies are practically compliant taxpayers within the corporate sector and paying 90 percent of the total corporate income tax collected by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) per annum.

Senior officials told Business Recorder that practically these 5,000 companies are doing business in the country as far as tax compliance is concerned.

The total number of companies registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) stood at nearly 125,000. Out of these registered companies, 50,000 are filing their income tax returns.

FBR intensifies efforts to collect advance tax instalments

Within the category of 50,000 return filers, half of the companies (25,000) are filing nil-returns with zero payment of tax.

Out of 25,000 active companies, 5,000 big companies are actually doing business and paying 90 percent of the corporate income tax. A total of around 300 companies are registered with five leading sectors.

On the sales tax side, a similar kind of trend has been witnessed as per FBR data.

Officials said that the sales tax base totalled between 40,000 to 60,000 who are paying sales tax including those depositing very low amount of sales tax. Total sales tax registration of companies with the FBR stood at nearly 200,000 including nil-filers of sales tax returns.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2024

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Aam Aadmi Oct 29, 2024 08:19am
Only 5000! If scrutinized carefully even these 5000 companies will not be found compliant. Still no worries, I as a lowly paid salaried person will make up for the shortfall in tax FBR's tax target.
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